Memoir in a Year: Protecting Yourself

What is the emotional cost of writing memoir, and how do you cope with the fallout? How do you sustain yourself as a writer on the long journey of researching and writing your own story?

Explore coping techniques in the writing of memoir and how to maintain objectivity in a subjective medium.

About Spiri Tsintziras

Spiri Tsintziras has written several books including ‘Afternoons in Ithaka’, a memoir of self-discovery, family, connection and the power of a tomato. Spiri’s writings have been published in newspapers, magazines and anthologies. Spiri blogs at www.tribaltomato.com and runs the communications business Writing Spirit.

Applications for the 2020 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship open 9am 1 October.
Now in its ninth year, the Fellowship commemorates the life, ideas and writing of Hazel Rowley (1951–2011) and awards $15,000 to an emerging or established Australian writer to support research and development of a new...